You've convinced me: rail should be subsidised more and air travel should get nothing (unless there is no equivalent train route e.g. across the sea) .
Funny, that can be reconciled at the other end with the maga bullshitting: "China is invading us with spies". It's similar to the war on terror in that the media would say "fear brown people" and then fundamentalists would do everything they could to validate that through media hysteria to get more recruits.
I guess putin is going to find out now if European democracy was just a little american experiment that will collapse at the americans' whims or if it has a will of its own...
Maybe Europe and the media are looking away so they don't get accused of meddling...but their enemies will accuse them of it anyway...so...help them out anyway?
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